The players of Sunderland Football Club, a club in the English Premier League, EPL, have agreed to compensate their fans who watched in disbelieve as Southampton beat their team 8 – 0 on Saturday, October 18, 2014. The fans, numbering about 2,500, who endured a 660-mile round trip to Southampton in order to cheer their…
Kwara Assembly Approves Governor’s N2bn Loan Request
The Kwara State House of Assembly today granted Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed’s request to source for N2bn loan from Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, MSME Development Fund of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Gana Yissa, deputy speaker of the House made the announcement after the plenary which he presided over in Ilorin. Yissa emphasized the importance…
Lagos To Get 2,400 Extra Polling Units — REC
Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola, the LagosState Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, on Monday, revealed that the state would get 2,400 additional polling units in preparation for the 2015 elections. Ogunmola, while speaking tojournalists at a workshop on the upcoming distribution of permanent voters cards organized for key officers of INEC by the United Nations Development Project, UNDP,…
Fayose Sacks LG Education Secretaries
Newly sworn-in Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has sacked all the local government education secretaries in the state. This was announced in a press statement issued on Tuesday in Ado Ekiti by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Idowu Adelusi. The statement said the dismissal “takes immediate effect.” It added that the secretaries should…
‘Jonathan’s Adoption By PDP Is A Shame’- Balewa
Abdul Jhalil Tafawa Balewa, presidential aspirant and son of former Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa, has described the recent adoption of President Goodluck Jonathan as Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, consensus candidate for the 2015 election as shameful. Balewa who spoke in Abuja when the National Association of Niger Delta Students, NANDS visited to endorse him as…
Former Australian Prime Minister Dies
Gough Whitlam, former Australian Prime Minister, has died at the age of 98. His administration in 1972, launched major initiatives that transformed the country after more than 20 years of leadership by a conservative governing coalition. But his government was plagued by resignations and the governor-general dismissed it in 1975, after just three years. Prime…
How To Sleep Comfortably On A Single Rope
Liang Yanguo’s favorite resting spot is actually a sling made of a single nylon rope tied between two trees. While the rest of us roll around in bed all night trying to find that elusive ‘sweet spot,’ the 51-year-old man can make himself quite comfortable on a single-rope hammock. Nicknamed the Kungfu Man, Yanguo has…
Borno to Reopen Public Schools in November
Borno State Government, on Sunday, announced that public schools in the state would reopen in November 2014. Mohammed Dongel, Chairman, Committee on the Resuscitation of Primary School Education, said that the schools would reopen in the first or the second week of November. “We hope to reopen all public schools by the first or second…
Nigeria to be Declared Ebola-free Today
Nigeria is expected to be declared Ebola-free on today Monday, October 20, 2014, just three months after fears that the virus could spread like wildfire through Africa’s most populous nation. The World Health Organisation, WHO, is preparing to announce that Nigeria has not had a confirmed case of Ebola for 42 days – or two…
Jonathan Condoles CAN Over Leader’s Death
President Goodluck Jonathan has sent his condolences to the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN over the death of Geoffrey Numbere, founder and General Overseer of Greater Evangelism World Crusade Ministries International who was a former Chairman of CAN in the South-South Zone. In a statement released on Sunday by Reuben Abati, the President’s Special Adviser…
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